Posts Tagged ‘link’

BBC frame any site – not just the good ones!

March 12th, 2006 by Sarah King

Checking the moderated comments on this blog I came across a link that used the BBC’s website to link to unsavory sites. In the example below I’m using one of my sites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.realstate.ws

and it astounds me that the BBC leave this door wide open. Surely they could have some sort of filter to ensure that the site being linked to is “approved”. I appreciate that it would take alot of effort to construct and maintain such a list but I believe a great many people will be fooled by the apparant endorsement by the BBC.

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Essential change to Blogger Templates

August 11th, 2005 by Sarah King

I love blogs, love reading ‘em. However Blogger blogs have a major flaw in their templates when it comes to the links to the single page posts. Some of the templates have addressed it but in the older blogs the problem still remains.

Take a look at Spam Bank and you’ll see that the heading for every post is a link and the footer information includes the heading. Take a look at most other blogger sites and it won’t be. That causes problems when the posts are long, you want to make a comment, or return to read comments and it’s really hard to find the end of that post.

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Referral Spam

November 21st, 2003 by Sarah King

What looks innocent often isn’t.

I was checking my logs today and noticed some unusual referrers and made a mental note to check what they were saying about me. I then read my email and saw a forum post about spammers with fake blogs. Out of curiosity I read the post. 50 plus websites & several hours later I’m much, much wiser.
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